OH HEY! GUYS WITH iPHONES! The Comics Chameleon webcomic app has just gone live in the iOS App store, and so if you wanna read Dumbing of Age on your Apple Thinger in a me-approved way, that is totes a thing you should do. And check out all these other comics available on Comics Chameleon! They’re all excellent! Well, except Hijinks Ensue, obviously. Dude hasn’t finished writing my Book 2 foreword yet.

Dammit! I just wanted to read that one strip again, ’cause it’s funny! Now I’m thirty Next-Button clicks into Walky and Dina’s relationship drama, and I can’t stop, and it’s after midnight, and I have work tomorrow and it’s all your fault!

I was more distracted by the sudden appearance of (a really badly drawn) Filis from Elf Life, and realised it’s probably ten years since I last regularly read it following a descent into longform prose that my brain can’t handle 🙁

Kinda miss it still, so I do …

Also, will the Walkerton twins prove to be quite as susceptible to alcohol this time round, one wonders?

see this cartoon chick masturbates and the other one is like super sheltered and fundie and doesn’t get that toys mean dildos and vibrators and the like and thinks she is referring to toys like barbie and My little pony and is begging to play with them!

Not going to lie, Joyce’s reaction would probably be my own reaction too, since if someone says toys, my mind doesn’t automatically jump to Sarah’s type of toy, but Joyce’s type, no matter what context.

I had a rather sheltered childhood. Not as sheltered as Willis’s, but sheltered.

Agree. Great strip, thank God I wasn’t drinking something when I pulled it up or it’d have been all over the monitor.
I LOVE Sarah and Joyce (not as a ‘ship’ NOT) but because they play off each other so perfectly.
Hope android gets an app soon.

Joe froze mid-leer, and slowly lowered his come-hither hand. The cheerleader he’d been hitting on stared as, compasslike, his entire body rotated towards the dormitories. “I heard the tales, but I did not think they could ever be true.” He whispered, eyes welled with tears. Then there was a crack, like thunder, and he was gone.

Joycus.
I’m sure Sarah would just decide not to bother with the romance stuff, but I really can’t understand how she imagined Joyce would have some other reaction.

This is also what kind of worries me about Joyce right now. In one moment she’s really ill at ease, in the other she’s super-excited about toys. Maybe the shift is a protection mechanism…or maybe it’s just short attention span. (Actually, the latter sounds kind of likely. She seems able to be mature about things or understand them quite deeply, but she doesn’t maintain that understanding in everyday life.)

Even if this weren’t the case: yes, yes, yes, of course. I’m doing a Dumbing of Age book every year as a first priority, everything else is an “if I can also do it” thing. Dumbing of Age has twice the readership of Shortpacked! and four times the readership of It’s Walky! and ten times the readership of Roomies!. I want DoA books to keep up to date with the strip, so skipping a year is not on the menu.

Now I have the image of them in their separate bunks, with Sara–unaware that Joyce is in the room–playing with her toys and Joyce with her blanket pulled up to just below her terrified eyes while she mumbles “vroom, vroom… vroom, vroom…”

Oh, and poo on iPhones. ANDROID. We need Willis-approved comics on ANDROID.

Actually, Leslie would probably be an awesome choice. Aside from being a professor in gender studies, she seems to be a well-adjusted adult and is probably also in a good position to recommend an actual counselor if necessary.

Did anyone else read the last line in Rigby’s voice? Also I actually DID have toys in my dorm at college, one of my favorites was my Rokusho action figure that I kept on my computer desk. Actually even now nearly 5 years after graduating it’s STILL on my computer desk.